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Earth DayAPRIL 22, 2017
OPUSD Earth WeekAPRIL 20-27, 2017
Wildlife of Oak ParkOur Nature NeighborsKickoff Event is a showing of the award-winning movie "The Cat that Changed America"OPHS Pavillion on Thursday, April 20th at 7:00 PMQ&A with an impressive panel consisting of the movie Producer/Director, Tony Lee.Watch the Official trailer for ‘The Cat that Changed America’ which received its World Premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in February 2017.The documentary feature has also been submitted to the Green Screens Film Festival in UCLA March 2017, the Newport Beach Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival and Milan Film Festival in May 2017, the Brooklyn, Sheffield and Edinburgh Film Festival in June 2017, the Japan Wildlife Film Festival in Tokyo, August 2017, the Green Screen Festival in Germany, the Toronto International Film Festival, Downtown LA Film Festival and the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival in September 2017, the American Conservation Film Festival West Virginia and Rotterdam International Film Festival in October 2017, and has been Officially Selected for the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival in New York City in October 2017.
The film has been garnering widespread media attention and written about in the Times of London, The Guardian newspaper, the Santa Barbara Daily News Press, Santa Barbara Independent, Santa Monica Observer, Ecowatch, Purr and Roar, L.A. Times, Los Angeles Daily News, LA Observed, the Topanga Messenger, Malibu Surfside News, the Natural History Network and LA’s City Watch.© 2016 Sabana Films. The motion picture recording of ‘The Cat that Changed America’ is owned by Sabana Films and registered under the US Copyright Office. Any unauthorized distribution is strictly prohibited.
Q&A Panel:
Tony Lee, Producer
Tony is an award winning film maker, television producer and owner of Sabana Films which produced The Cat that Changed America. In 2015, he won the Special Jury Award at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival for The Secret Life of Your House. Over his 25 year career, he has produced and directed many programmes in the science and natural history strand for a range of broadcasters. He spends his time between California and England, and has a special interest in big cats. For more information about Tony, check out his website at http://www.tonyleemoral.com
Beth Pratt-BergstromBeth Pratt, National Wildlife Federation’s California Director, leads the #SaveLACougars campaign, and has worked in environmental leadership roles for over twenty years, and in two of the country’s largest national parks: Yosemite and Yellowstone. Although she’s lived and worked in some of the most beautiful places on the planet, and on a variety of projects involving wolves, bears and other wildlife, she says,” nothing has inspired me more than helping to build this landmark crossing outside of Los Angeles to help save this urban population of mountain lions.” She is also the author of the book, “When Mountain Lions are Neighbors: Wildlife in Today’s California,” to be published by Heyday.
Beth can speak at your event on a variety of topics, including mountain lions, the Liberty Canyon wildlife crossing and #SaveLACougars campaign, and California wildlife in general. Contact her at prattb@nwf.org.
Natalie Riggs, Shakti Ranch, Santa Monica MountainsSherry Ferber, Liberty Canyon Homeowners AssociationLian Schulman, Poison Free Malibu